Ornament or imitation buckle for shoes.



C. S. GLINCH. ORNAMENT oa IMITATIQN BUCKLE mf. SHOES. APPLTCAI'ION PILEI) OUT. 1910. 980920K Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

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' CHABLESS. CLINCH, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SHOE CITY NOVELTY C0., OF LYNN, MASSCHUSETITS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

ONAMENT R IMITATION BUCKLE FOR SHOES.

Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Jan. 3, 1911.

Application filed October 22, 1910. Serial No. 588,568.

i .of Lynn. in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new land useful Improvements in Ornament or Imitation luckles for Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ornaments adapted iiarticularly for low cut shoes, the ornament resembling a buckle without having the usual functions of a buckle.

The invention has for its object to provide a desirable ornament of this character adapted to be economically manufactured.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specificatiomwlt1 igure 1 represents a front View of an ornament embodying my invention; Fig. 2 represents a rear view of the same, a part of the attaching strip hereinafter referred to being broken away; Fig. 3 represents an enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig. l; Fig. 4t represents a. section on line 4.--4 of Fig. 1; Fig. represents a side View of the blank from which the facing piece, hereinafter referred to, is made; and Fig. 6 represents a side View of the frame hereinafter referred to.

Similar reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the figures.

My improved ornament comprises two chief parts, namely, an open frame 12 which r is preferably formed from a single piece of flexible material such as press board or sheet metal, the frame members surrounding an opening 13, and a facing piece lll comprising a body portion formed to cover one side 0f the frame '1Q and its opcning,'and having flaps 'l5 adapted to be bent along the dotted lines in Fig. 5 over the edges of the frame and against the inner side thereof, the width of the tlapsbeing greater than the width of the members of the frame, so that the outer edges of the flaps overlap the frame members and overhang the frame opening, as .indicated by Fig. The facing piece may be made of any suitable ornamental material such as enameled leather or textile fabric. In assembling the said parts the body portion of the facing piece of the frame and the flaps ai'e bent over the edges of the frame and against the rear side thereof, the flaps being preferably temporarily confined being wider than thc members by cement. The central part of the body v portion of the facing piece is then pressed into the frame openinga ainst the edge portions of the flaps and united to said ed e portions by stitches 16 which extend paralil with the inner edges of the frame members and in close proximity thereto, as indicated by Figs. 1, 3 and 4. The offset part of the facing piece constitutes a panel, the margin of which is formed by shoulders 17 which include the inwardly bent material of. the facing piece. Said shoulders are rendered permanent by the stitches 16.

18 represents an attaching strip of leather or other suitable flexible material which is placed against the flaps 15 at the rear side of the ornament, and united thereto and to the facing piece by the stitches 1G, the ends of said attaching strip being free, as shown by Fig. 4, and constituting tabs by which the ornament may be attached to a shoe upper.

When the described ornament is in use it is curved longitudinally so as to rest in arched form on the instep portion of the shoe upper.

It is obvious that the described ornament comprising the fianie 12 and ,facing piece 14 may be secured to the shoe bypther means, the attaching strip 18 being omitted. Said strip constitutes the best attaching means of which I am at present aware.

I claim A 1. An imitation buckle comprising a flexible open frame, a facing piece formcdto cover one side of the frame and the opening surrounded thereby and provided 'with flaps which are bent over the edges of the frame and against the rear side thereof, the fiaps of the frame, southattheir outer edges overhang the frame opening, and stitches extending through the frame opening and uniting the edge portions of the flaps to the body portion of thefacing, the central part of said body portion being offset into the frame opening to form a shoulder conforming to the inner edges of the frame members and confine l by said stitches which make the said shoulder permanent. l y 2.,Aii imitation buckle comprising a flexible open frame, a facing piece formed. to cover one side of the frame and the-opening surrounded thereby and provided with aps which arcbent over the edges of the frame and against the rear side thereof, the flaps being Wider than the members of the frame, I the body p-oton and its aps by the said so that their outer edgesJ overhang the frame stitches, and having free ends adapted to be opening, stitches extending thl'ough the attached to :L shoe. frame opening and uniting the edge portions In testmfmy whereof have affixed my 5 of thehfaps to the bod); porol gf the facsignature, in presence of twawtnesqes. np t e central art o sai o portion oerg offset into Fha frame opening to form CHARLES S' CLINQH a shoulder conforming to the inner edges VV'tluesses':

Y of the frame members and confined by said ALBERT L. HowEs,

y10 Stitches and sm attaching strip secured t0 LUCY E. B. NEWHALL. 

